Toby David Godfrey Ord (born July 1979) is an Australian philosopher. In 2009 he founded Giving What We Can, an international society whose members pledge...
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at Oxford University in 2009 by the philosopher Toby Ord, physician-in-training Bernadette Young (Ord's wife), and fellow philosopher William MacAskill...
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Future of Humanity is a 2020 non-fiction book by the Australian philosopher Toby Ord, a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford...
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in 2011. Philosophers influential to the movement include Peter Singer, Toby Ord, and William MacAskill. What began as a set of evaluation techniques advocated...
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staff included futurist Anders Sandberg and Giving What We Can founder Toby Ord. Sharing an office and working closely with the Centre for Effective Altruism...
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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, philosopher Toby Ord describes longtermism as follows: "longtermism ... is especially concerned...
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from 26 academics on various global catastrophic and existential risks. Toby Ord's 2020 book The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity argues...
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understanding has been carried out by Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord, and suggests "a substantial ex ante probability of there being no other...
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Ord (1700–1778), British lawyer and politician Toby Ord (born 1979), Australian philosopher William Ord (1781–1855), English politician and landowner,...
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and digital minds. AI may also drastically improve humanity's future. Toby Ord considers the existential risk a reason for "proceeding with due caution"...
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